An award-winning film exploring the socio-economic forces at work in the housing industry in Malaysia, & the likelihood of a Malaysian Homeless Generation.

The film raises the question of how a new ‘Malaysian Homeless Generation’ has emerged on the scenes. For youngsters, owning a home has become a distant dream. The filmmaker takes us on a journey to discover how this situation came about, what kind of forces are at play and most importantly how can the ordinary person have the power to resist market forces in a capitalist system such as Malaysia’s.

Intelligently titled, this film, after the M-C-M' cycle and social capital by Marxism, -(M-C-M' cycle is the transformation of money (M) into commodities (C), and the change of commodities back again into money (M') of altered value) - this film made by young film maker from Malaysia Boon Kia Meng, The filmmaker takes us on a journey to discover how the present situation of escalating house prices came about, what kind of forces are at work, interviewing the key players in the system, such as developers, the banks, the state and young house buyers, which some concerned parties have called the Homeless Generation.

Boon Kia Meng is an activist-filmmaker. His film ‘M-C-M’: Utopia Milik Siapa?’, a winner at the Malaysian Freedom Film Festival 2012, documenting the issue of escalating house prices and debt in Malaysia. This film featured in the recently completed Livelihood film festival in Delhi.

Screening is followed by panel discussion on the present debt crisis in general and housing crisis in particular in our country too.

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